Red Tape Strangles a Regenerative Farm in California’s Santa Clara River Valley: ‘Chef Mollie’

Excessive regulations are the result of people not trusting each other, the farmer and entrepreneur says.
Red Tape Strangles a Regenerative Farm in California’s Santa Clara River Valley: ‘Chef Mollie’
Regenerative farmer and business owner Mollie Engelhart in Fillmore, California on Oct. 30, 2023. Tal Atzmon/The Epoch Times
Ella Kietlinska
Jan Jekielek
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The owner of a regenerative farm in California’s picturesque Santa Clara River Valley has sold the enterprise and moved to Texas. She says the state’s excessive business regulations strangled her business to the point where she could not afford to pay her employees.

Mollie Engelhart, a chef, entrepreneur, and regenerative farmer, built a farm-to-table business in California. Sow-A-Heart Farm, which Ms. Engelhart owned with her husband, Elias Sosa, grew food for their mini-chain of popular Los Angeles restaurants, Sage Plant Based Bistro, and for their community.